CVE-2025-10579

Medium

Description

The BackWPup – WordPress Backup & Restore Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the 'backwpup_working' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 5.5.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to retrieve access to a back-up's filename while a backup is running. This information has little value on it's own, but could be used to aid in a brute force attack to retrieve back-up contents in limited environments (i.e. NGINX).

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.3
Exploit probability—
ProductBackWPup – WordPress Backup & Restore Plugin
PublishedOct 25, 2025
First seenOct 25, 2025

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
wp_media BackWPup – WordPress Backup & Restore Pluginv ≤ 5.5.0—

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